Holidays 2021-01-29
Today's observances concern seeing eye dogs, racing computer games, having fun at work, the earned income tax credit, freethinkers, carnations, corn chips, curmudgeons, a historically large block of cheese, and puzzles: Big Block of Cheese Day Curmudgeons Day EITC Awareness Day Freethinkers Day AKA Thomas Paine Day International Fun At Work Day National Carnation Day National Corn Chip Day National Puzzle Day Seeing Eye Dog Day Winter-een-mas: Racing Big Block of Cheese Day was inspired by a West Wing episode about a gift to Andrew Jackson, but it was celebrated with a more modern White House event . Today in 1897 William McKinley was born; he would become the 25th US president and whose favorite flower was the carnation. WC Fields was born on this date in 1880, inspiring Curmudgeons Day. It's also a day to celebrate puzzles.